How to Be Fine

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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I am a bit of a Negative Nancy when it comes to self help. I think most of the books can be super harmful, and are filled with junk (if filled at all). But I do love podcasts that rip these books apart!

The tagged is the book from the podcasters who do By The Book where they live by a book for a week and judge it. I also love If Books Could Kill that deep dives into the people and ideas in popular SH books.

Susanita I loved By the Book. 1w

Kerrbearlib Stacked! I am also going to check out that podcast. 1w

ChaoticMissAdventures @Kerrbearlib the pod is over now I think but is so great! Kristin is a huge skeptic and Jolenta is a true believer so the dynamic is really good and I like that they give each book a fair shot. 1w

BookmarkTavern Definitely going to check out that podcast! Thanks for posting! 1w

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How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

3 stars, probably would have enjoyed the podcast more but this abbreviated version of all the different self help things they tried was interesting š

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5feet.of.fury

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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Enjoyable. It is basically the Happiness Project, but whatever. Jolenta and Kristen crash test a self help book every 2 weeks. Year of Yes, Tidying Up, French Women Don‘t Get Fat, Girl Wash your Face, Girls Guide to Resistance ..and 45 others.. some will make it onto my TBR, others ā€¦well, I have seen what I needed to see (or heard). Nothing original really happened here but I liked the dual perspectives and the realistic application.

Tera66 Adorable picture, girl!š» 4y

rather_be_reading cute hat! 4y

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5feet.of.fury

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

Got some listening in this morning and an #audiorun after work. This book is basically The Happiness Projectā€¦ but it‘s good if not wholly original and I appreciate the duel perspectives. Def giving me a lot of suggestions for nexts reads - the 2 authors select a self help book to read and implement every 2 weeks and report back on their podcast By The Book š“

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5feet.of.fury

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

Contemplating my audiobook picks for August šˇ§

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Texreader

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

Today‘s Audible deal of the day. I‘m tempted just because it looks fun.

Nute It was nice to hear from you today!āŗļø¸ 4y

Texreader @Nute Glad you got it. š¤— Sorry it was so late! š³ 4y

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underground_bks

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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In How To Be Fine, the co-hosts of the By the Book podcast sum up all they‘ve learned, useful and otherwise, from living by the advice of self-help books for two weeks at a time. I‘ve never listened to the podcast but I enjoyed Jolenta and Kristen‘s adventures and their key takeaways. This book highlights the best part of self-help booksā€”most of the time, it‘s not the advice itself, but the perspective that you can intentionally change and grow.

ChaoticMissAdventures I absolutely love their podcast, one of the few I am religious about listening to, they are so charming and smart and funny. How did the book make it into your radar? 4y

underground_bks @ChaoticMissAdventures it was a free listening copy for booksellers from Libro.fm (audiobook provider that supports indie bookstores), back when it first published! My husband and I were looking for something to listen to while doing inventory at our bookshop and decided to give it a try! 4y

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TheDaysGoBy

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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The authors sum up their experiences with living with a variety of self-help books for two weeks per book. It was interesting hearing some of their experiences/ideas on what was worth their time and what wasn‘t. If anything I think listening to them helps you to put the self-help advice into perspective. You can adapt it to fit your life or disregard it completely if it seems to do you more harm than good.

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Moonprismpower

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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Best self-help book I‘ve read! Meinzer and Greenberg live two weeks by fifty different self help books and they tell you what worked and what didn‘t for them and what they wish more self help books included. My takeaway is that self help books are not one size fits all and you can read them but ā€with a grain of saltā€¯ as they say. It‘s a good thing I‘m perfect.
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They have a podcast! By the Book.

ItsAnotherJen I have listened to a ton of their podcast episodes! The book sounds interesting. 5y

Moonprismpower @ItsAnotherJen yasss! I‘m finally caught up to 2020. They just read the tagged book and š‚

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Zelma I used to listen to their podcast; they are pretty fun and interesting. 5y

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Sharpeipup

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

Arming myself with information for a better week.

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annahenke

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

Finally got this library hold in! This is the book associated with my favorite podcast, By the Book. I‘m it, two comedians read and abide by a self-help book for two weeks, taking it seriously but also adding funny anecdotes. Loving the book version!

8little_paws oh I want to read this! I actually love the idea of this podcast but don't like actually listening to it and I think it would work *way* better for me in book form! 5y

annahenke @8little_paws I would definitely check it out in book form then! 5y

Sharpeipup I‘m still waiting for that one 5y

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MallenNC

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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This was a fun recap of what the hosts of the podcast By the Book have experienced from following the rules of many self-help books. In their own book they tell what worked, what didn‘t, and what they wish self-help covered more. I heard their voices as I read. If you don‘t listen to their show this is a good intro.

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MallenNC

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

I‘m excited to start this book. I don‘t love self help books but their podcast is great.

ItsAnotherJen I love their podcastš¤— 5y

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Beatlefan129

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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My sister and I have been fans of the By The Book podcast for years, so we agreed we had to read this book when it came out. This book was a fun recap of many of their best episodes, and felt like visiting with old friends. Just don‘t go into this expecting anything new. If you‘re a fan of the podcast, you‘ve probably heard these stories before.

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ReadingEnvy

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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Well this title is surprisingly apropos of everything right now. The two hosts of the By the Book podcast have talked about putting self-help books into practice for a while. This book pulls those experiences together like a review article, if you know academic writing. ā¤µļø¸

ReadingEnvy Rather than make each chapter a different book, they concepts into two chapters found in the books (things that worked and things that didn't), and add an additional section with things they wished more books had recommended (basically their own mini self help book.) I think you could enjoy both the podcast and the book, I'll know soon as will consume them in reverse.ā¤µļø¸ 5y

ReadingEnvy I think also i wish I'd read this in audio if the podcasters narrate their own book, which I imagine they do!

This came out March 17, 2020, into a world that could use a little help. 5y

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Smrloomis

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

My third post is up š„ https://bookriot.com/2020/03/02/exploration-of-self-help/

8little_paws I feel like this genre is in the middle of a renaissance. I love self-help books! Recently I read Atomic Habits, and it is fantastic. I also read Make Time and quite liked that as well. And I'm currently reading one about parenting infants and toddlers. 5y

Smrloomis @8little_paws You‘re probably right. I always think there will be some good stuff and a whole lot of crap š‚ so glad you found some good ones. I don‘t think I‘ve read either of those yet. What‘s the toddler parenting book? Do you think it‘s good? Parenting books are a whole other category! (edited) 5y

8little_paws The parenting one is an old one. I love her underlying concept of respecting children but I think sometimes she goes too far in her actions at least at this early age. For example she doesn't recommend baby playmat gyms or mirrors, but my son seems to act with joy when he's playing on his playmat or looking in the mirror. When he seems to no longer enjoy those activities we remove them.

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8little_paws It's hard for me to say if it's good for toddlers because my son is just 11 weeks old and I am really only trying out the infant ideas in it thus far. I do plan on reading the whole book though and saving ideas for the future. 5y

Smrloomis @8little_paws I feel like parenting books are so hard to evaluate. It seems like how useful it is to you depends on a lot of factors like age, siblings, family or living dynamics etc. Maybe that‘s just me š¤·š¸»ā€¨ā™€ļø¸ but I think all that matters is what works (somewhat) for you right now. That‘s good enough š‚ 5y

8little_paws @smrloomis As I got to the end the author focuses on toddlers. She puts in a lot of sample conversations. There was one between two children where they were both fighting over a chair. One would sit in it, the other would push the kid off, then they'd get up, then the kid sits in it again and so on. And it was like how the carer should interact when this happens. OMG it was exhausting and I thought ā€what have I gotten myself intoā€ š„ 5y

Smrloomis @8little_paws š‚ yup. I really don‘t know how my mother survived me and my brother fighting all the time. Glad my Dad didn‘t just make us live in the backyard š‚ 5y

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akaGingerK

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books | Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg

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Sprung from the podcast that I will now be listening to, this book is a great overview of the highlights and lowlights of a large swath of self-improvement books. The authors‘ opinions on what advice worked, what didn‘t, and what got overlooked made for an entertaining & fairly informative listen. #ALC

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